Professional Nerds

This presentation was given at a convention to unveil the new Dungeons and Dragons version. The speakers use jargon that is germaine to the auidience so the fact that the average listener would not understand most of their dialogue is not out of place, however, this presentation is very flawed in many many other ways.

To begin with the speaker who is standing next to the podium wearing the blue shirt continues to rock back and forth throughout much of the presentation - this is distracting and takes away from the visual aid behind the two. Furthermore, both speakers stumble over their words at times and appear very unprepared. At 4:27 the speaker behind the podium even says "What am I missing? What am I missing?". The best and most painful example of this occurs at the end of the speech when the speaker in blue exclaims "Thank you!" as though the presentation is over and after an awkward three second pause the speaker in the red shirt goes on to tell the audience the last bit of information.

I chose this presentation because it shows how a poorly made visual aid can make a presentation look even less professional. These two gentlemen are obviously not professional speakers, however, had they used a very engaging and quality visual aid this presentation could have excited the eager crowd. Remember this crowd is composed of people who have been counting the hours until the new version is released and at no point is there any sort of exuberance or excitement displayed from the crowd.

The visual aid used throughout this travesty of a presentation is awful. When the '4 parts of 4th Edition' are revealed it is literally impossible to read the slide. For that matter, every slide in the presentation is difficult to read, the presenters failed to account for the poor projection capability of the room they would be using and left the audience with blurry, small text which made the visual aid a waste of space and energy. Note the awful slide composition at 1:06, there is far too much dead space and the text is unreadable.

This presentation was absolutely terrible, I hope the product these two represent can speak for itself.